Huawei launches world's 1st cloud phones in India

The phones also offer richer messaging features with Message+, an application developed by Huawei's Indian team, to share texts, pictures, videos and voice notes; Phone Finder to locate, back-up and lock the device; and Cloud Gallery for easy viewing and sharing of pictures.

Huawei Sonic is priced at Rs 9,210, while Ideos X3 is priced at Rs 10,229. Both handsets are powered by Android 2.3 Gingerbread operating system.

"In our consumer interactions, we found that while smartphones being better than feature phones, still have limitations. That is where our Cloud+ service offering 16 GB Net drive, integrated social phonebook, richer messaging and phone finder services will make our cloudphones smarter than the existing smartphones," Huawei sales director (devices) P Sanjeev said.